WHITE

 White flowers lining the centers and corners of your home makes it feel brighter and calmer.  Flowers are as essential to me as tooth-paste.  Is it too "domesticated female"?  Sorry fellow feminists!  I just like pretty things.  Remember when Chanel opened up this pop-up flower shop?  I wanted to fly to London just for that.  You can't wear flowers; you can't walk with them and they die within a week: but oh well.  They reflect my own soft, pretty and short mortality.  The gravitas!

Perfect thing to have when you are in the process of cleaning up your house for Spring.  You can organize your closet and go, "man what have I been doing my whole life?  Am I where I wanted to be?  I didn't watch Les Miserables yet!"

After the mess you can delve into the new, the unimaginable, and for me, more color in my wardrobe.  How will you look in Spring?

MORNING

Now let's go do some yoga guys!  

(Kidding let's go to work)

Want to know how I made this?  Read more...

SUCCULENT SAYS HI

Featuring Lek, the succulent plant and Honefoss Ikea honeycomb mirrors (very McQueen)

COOL CATS

Sometimes we want to get away, but there is no way to plan a trip out...  

So I have found that staycations are the best way to get away from home, without leaving home.  And in New York city, that is too easy.  More about Lek and Jen's staycation later....

Lek found me that card at the East River market during the summer.  More on that in a later post!

LAVENDER

Take some of the lavender buds and crush them in your palm.  Sniff.  Lovely.

BE VIBRANT

BRUNCH. This is one of Brooklyn's super hours. It's an ambiguous word that means: come get your breakfast... but with the cocktails of lunch hour and the outfits of dinner hour. You thought your Equipment shirt, Céline bag and Opening Ceremony silver broques were too casual for dinner? Yeah, just wear it to brunch. People bring their friends, their pets, their kids... (what do you think about this? My thoughts? Let's just say Lek and I avoid Park Slope on the weekends at times. It could be because of the thousands of MacLarens or another brunch date in Park Slope that went awry... that is a story for another day.) Brunch? I love it, we love it; this is the people's consensus. The only problem?

It is too easy to get the same old plates. They usually consist of: poached eggs, grapefruit brulee, or some sort of burger or hash steak nonsense. But then we discovered the french crepe at Pates et Traditions. Super Surprise!!! (I wrote that in French. Yeah it's the same spelling and meaning in English but I am so bilingual and cultured right?!) Each crepe is stuffed with so much flavor and wonder (goat cheese and figs, or sausage and grilled tomatoes). It is exactly what you want in the morning. Something light, yet succulent and super happy-inducing. And to get you to that bliss point? After the crepe, walk over to Reynard in the Wythe Hotel and grab a drink in a sun-filled room.

Pates et Traditions  /  52 Havemeyer St, Brooklyn, NY 11211